Gwyneth Paltrow or Spring Festival

Morning, Bayside! Do you like Gwyneth Paltrow? Skip to the fourth of our five things today—then read back the rest so you don't miss anything! Here's five things for your Wedensday:

1. Matthew Devlin, accused of beating his mother with a baseball bat in her Bayside home, causing her death, was deemed to stand trial yesterday. Bayside Patch will continue our coverage of the criminal court proceedings as they go on.

2. How much do you know about matzah? It seems, from Patch's time with Chabad's Rabbi Eli Shifrin, that there's to what seems like a simple cracker.

3. Are you all getting read for the Bayside Hills Civic Association's Spring Festival on Saturday? If their winter was any indication, it should be a hoot.

4. It was revealed on an NBC TV show, Who Do You Think You Are, that one branch of Gwyneth's family hails from Barbados. Some enterprising geneaologist on GenealogyWise says that another branch, her paternal grandfather, is actually from Bayside! Check it out.

5. Check back in with Patch for our Family Talk feature, where you can jump in with your say on local parenting issues.